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Bark cloth
19th or early 20th century
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Large panel of tapa cloth. Thick white fabric made from beaten bark, painted in rust and brown in design of three rows of rectangles enclosing striated angular forms. Rows are divided by stripes of diamond pattern.
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Details
- Title: Bark cloth
- Date Created: 19th or early 20th century
- Location Created: Samoa
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Medium: Broussonetia bark Technique: beaten bark fiber, rubbed and hand painted Label: beaten and rubbed Broussonetia bark, hand-painted
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim
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